Aliens win FTW!!

Tokio Hotel fans (Bill with a beard!?!) win!!! Go Aliens!!!


Click the above link to view a video clip from Tokio Hotel congratulating fans on winning the O Music Awards Fan Army FTW contest. 


I've seen a few stills from this vid commenting on what appears to be a beard on the chiseled chin of Bill. The stills looked photoshopped (stills sometimes look wonky and the lighting in the vid is horrid) but it does appear in the vid that there is a bit of stubble on that beautiful face. But still...


He does sort of resemble Russell Brand though. Huh...

O Music Awards....Vote!!!

Are you a super fan? I am...and if you are, you can cast your vote like I did on the O Music Award Site and keep Tokio Hotel in First Place! (The Belieber's are catching up...don't let that happen!!!) There's just a little over two days left to vote....


Be an Alien like the rest of us!!! 


MTV is ushering in the next wave of music award shows, and doing it online with the first-ever O Music Awards, an all-out, unhinged online awards show, complete with never-before-seen collaborations, performances, moments honoring artists, fans, and innovators driving – and changing – digital music.

Tokio Hotel "Wear the Pins" Photo Contest...

Tokio Hotel has a contest posted on their official Tokio Hotel home page announcing a chance to win a ring made from part of the stage set from the "Welcome to Humanoid City" tour.

This is a follow up to the button sale fundraiser I posted about previously. The contest involves taking a pic of you wearing your buttons and runs till May 31, 2011. Winning photos will be put up on the Tokio Hotel Official website and one lucky winner will have a ring made specially for them from the handrail of the set.

If you haven't already ordered your buttons, make haste to the site and order either from the US Tokio Hotel shop site or the European site. 

Tokio Hotel to Support Japanese Red Cross

Tokio Hotel has begun a fundraiser for the Japanese Red Cross in the effort to help the earthquake and tsunami victims. They are offering a For Japan button set for a base price of $10.00US + S&H ($3.99US) with options to make an additional donation up to $25US. 


Buttons are in pre-order status and will be shipped in 3-4 weeks. All profits will go toward the Japanese Red Cross

Click HERE to read the band's MySpace page. The blog there provides links to order buttons from the US store or buttons from the European store. 


Payment can be made through PayPal or with a credit card. 


And a GIANT thank-you to the boys in the band for being who they are. 

Pretty Picture...

I'm so behind the times....so much has happened and I'm late to the party, as usual. So, in playing catch up with the boys, here's a picture from their L'Uomo photo shoot from last fall. I love the contrast of Tom's red shoes with the blue clothing and the fantastically ornate mirror and table. It's a well composted photo...and it's just plain hot as well!

VOTE!!!

Vote for Tokio Hotel!!!

The voting is over for this and sadly Tokio Hotel lost to Paramore. Maybe next year....


Get to MTV now and vote for Tokio Hotel in MTV's March Madness. They're up against Paramore and it's neck and neck at the moment. Make your vote count! Go Tokio Hotel!!

Because I Can...

My koi fish tattoo...upper left arm. I love my fish, I love the colors, the design and my fantastic tattoo artist Lenny at Steve's Tattoo in Madison, Wisconsin. 

 

Love this video...

Found this video on YouTube...I love Hey Du and the montage of photos is great...Enjoy!!!

Review of the Tokio Hotel 2 CD/DVD set

It's hard to imagine that a band whose members are as young as Tokio Hotel can actually have enough material to put out a "best of" CD/DVD, but they do. In fact, they even have unreleased songs and new tracks on the double English/German CD set; "Madchen Aus Dem All" (2003) and "Hurricanes and Suns" (2009). And those makes a nice addition, giving us a whopping 18 songs on each CD. As with past double CDs, one CD is in English, one in German. 

Many of the songs are from the Humanoid CD and tour, along with standard favorites like "Rette Mich" and "Ubers Ende Der Welt" and of course the iconic "Scream." As with all of Tokio Hotel's music, the songs mesh very well together, considering how the band has evolved over the arc of their musical development and there's at last 6 years' worth of music on these CDs. Pretty amazing, if you ask me.

And with all of that comes a DVD with 18 videos and 6 making of... videos. All in all, a nice package for the price. I also think it would be a nice CD for someone not familiar with Tokio Hotel. It gives a balanced look at their work over the years and it's always fun to watch the older videos when they were even younger. Being able to look...and listen...back over their work puts the band in context with where they are now, shows us how they've evolved and are still evolving, both stylistically and as individuals. We get the range of Bill's voice as he matures and the growing sophistication of their music and lyrics in more recent tracks from Humanoid.

And the videos gives us the panorama of Bill's ever-changing hair styles and wardrobe, along with a look back at Tom's dreds. As much as I appreciate the current fashion-forward person Bill's becoming, I still miss the Volcom t-shirts and ripped jeans. 


Tokio Hotel Best of... 2 CD/DVD set

A year gone...

It's been a long year...and it's over. Finally.


Starting new with the newly purchased "Best Of" CD/DVD set that arrived yesterday. Am currently listening to the German version CD. Nice that not all the songs are on both, it's a mix between the English and German. I'm not saying that quite right...lol. I'm out of practice describing things.